BBC Music Magazine

Christmas 2025 |

A choral Christmas Celebrate a glorious festive season with the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge Cover: St John’s College, Cambridge As the famed choir greets Christmas with a new album, Ashutosh Khandekar finds it in the finest festive health In good faith Roxanna Panufnik tells Amanda Holloway how her celebratory new work embraces six different religions Hiss and make-up A history of horrible opera goers, by Alexandra Wilson It’s all in the genes Well-known musicians tell Michael White just what it’s like to have even more famous musicians as parents